The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 No 7452 p578
19 May 2007

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Vitamins and prostate cancer

There is an increased risk of advanced and fatal prostate cancers among men reporting excessive use of multivitamins compared with men who have never used multivitamins, according to a review. The reviewers saw no association between multivitamin use and risk of localised prostate cancer (Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007;99:754).